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World Views and Interpretive Communities in the Literary Field of Czechoslovakia in the 1930s
Borovička, Lukáš ; Janáček, Pavel (advisor) ; Sýkora, Michal (referee) ; Holý, Jiří (referee)
The goals of the present dissertation are twofold: 1) to bring back into the literary thought the notion of "world view", which has been largely discredited due to its abusage in the context of official Marxism during the socialist era, and 2) to affirm the usefulness of the notion of "world view" in the literary practice. The thesis is structured so as to meet the goals: the first chapter presents several probes of the usage of the phrase "world view" and definition discussions related to it. In this framework, the "scientific world view" from the socialist era is then confronted with a range of other definitions of the notion, such as F. X. Šalda's "view of life and world". In the second chapter, I present my approach to this notion, aimed at serving the purposes of current literary research. Firstly, I distinguish the notion of "world view" from the notions of "mentality" and "ideology", and secondly, following the research of The Worldviews Group (Brussels) I propose my own definition of world view. Since the Group does not deal with actual interpretations of literary texts, I make use for the intended purpose of an updated and slightly modified concept of Terry Eagleton, originally published within the monograph Criticism and Ideology (1976). What is essential is foremost to differ between a)...
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Author fairy tale at the begining of the twenties of the 20th century
Meixnerová, Karolína ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Králíková, Andrea (referee)
The present thesis aims at describing the genre of literary fairytales. The study is mainly concerned with the 1920', the decade of the upswing of the genre. The classification of Hana Šmahelová and Vera Vařejková was chosen as the default material for the classification of the literary fairytales. The literary fairytale is thus regarded as a special kind of story with fairytale elements. In order to accurately capture the characteristic elements of the literary fairytale, the theoretical part of the thesis was enriched by an interpretation of chosen texts, which substantially influenced the entire development of the genre. Namely, the thesis is based on the comparison of the social fairytale (J. Wolker, M. Majerová), the fairytale carrying the theme of war (R. Medek) and finally, literary fairytales, which are to be found in the three collections Nůše pohádek (1918, 1919, 1920).
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